Can you link to a Democrat saying that? I ask because being pro-business is the Republican stereotype.

The question was posed. Perhaps the Slashdot "editors" shouldn't forward on political hotbutton questions, and perhaps people here could be mature enough to not ask such questions.

Perhaps you could even take responsibility for yourself and ignore the hotbutton answer in favor of another answer or three... but that's asking a bit much, isn't it?

Therefore we should have no laws, because criminals would just ignore them anyway.

It's utterly predictable that Slashdot glommed onto the gun question and is ignoring everything else Bruce had to say.

Yes, and here's how to do it:
https://www.torproject.org/pro...

I've been running an obfuscated bridge for about a year now. Setting up was pretty easy and it's been pain-free since then, especially since bandwidth usage limits can be set.

For the uninitiated, a bridge is basically an unpublished entry point into the Tor system; unpublished means you have to send an email to or visit a certain server to be given the address of just one rather than being in the directory for all to see at once, meaning that it's harder for a censor to block. An obfuscated bridge also runs the obfs proxy, which attempts to hide Tor traffic from monitors like the Great Firewall.

Not necessarily.

I've had this problem mostly with Debian testing and unstable (where this sort of thing should be expected) but there are times when even apt-get dist-upgrade or aptitude dist-upgrade won't resolve it, and one either must ignore it until all the dependencies are updated or decide "yeah, I didn't need those packages anyway", uninstall the offenders, and complete upgrading other stuff.

Once or twice I told apt to grab a package's dependencies, compiled the package locally, then installed it with stow. This works too if you don't mind updating the package manually.

That's a symptom of why I never share Slashdot stories on social media: this place has about zero credibility.

There's this thing called "slang" that you should familiarize yourself with.

Why would the UK's legal history reset with Richard I instead of William the Conqueror? Source?

This is why I love virtual machines and broadband. Grab all the spins of Mint or whatever operating system that you're interested in and install them into virtual machines, then try them out until you're bored and delete the VM.

LXDE is for the really old computers, like the P4-based Celeron laptop my daughter uses.
Xfce is for older computers or those with low specs, or if you want something faster than the next few:
MATE is for those who remember GNOME 2 and the glory days of Ubuntu fondly. It's a continuation of the old GNOME 2 project.
Cinnamon is the new thing that the Mint devs want to (eventually) replace MATE with. The interfaces are fairly similar but it's got more modern underpinnings.
KDE is for the folks who want to customize ALL THE THINGS.

Generally they can run each other's programs, you'll just need the supporting packages to be installed, which your package manager should handle automatically when you install the program you want.

Unless it's changed recently, the official recommendation is to use the backup utility on your Mint install (which backs up data and notes your installed packages), then do a clean reinstall of Mint, then lastly run the backup utility to restore data and packages. You can do it the other way but the Mint project's resources are limited and success is not guaranteed.

Yes, and there will be an Xfce one as well. It usually takes a month or two after MATE/Cinnamon releases for Mint to release ISOs with those DEs.

I was a GNOME 2 diehard, then I preferred MATE, but Cinnamon's really growing on me.